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[89a] if they are to be good; and so by this account the profitable will be wisdom, and virtue, we say, is profitable?

Meno
Certainly.

Socrates
Hence we conclude that virtue is either wholly or partly wisdom?

Meno
It seems to me that your statement, Socrates, is excellent.

Socrates
Then if this is so, good men cannot be good by nature.

Meno
I think not.


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